AI‑Ready Data Architect for Enterprise Data Platforms

Koch Business Solutions, LP; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Flexible spending accounts

Parental leave

Job summary

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a Data Architect to design, mature, and scale enterprise-endorsed data products powering analytics and AI at the enterprise level. You will translate business problems into reusable data models and governed data assets, balancing technical rigor with business impact.

Join a team that collaborates across IT and business units to deliver scalable data foundations, domain models, and patterns that enable decision-making and AI outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in data modeling, including dimensional modeling or related patterns for analytics and reporting workloads.
• Experience writing and optimizing SQL against cloud data warehouses.
• Proven ability communicating data architecture and technology concepts to a variety of audiences.
• Demonstrated capability translating business needs into coherent data models and reusable data products.
• Experience with data transformation tools for developing data pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience applying data modeling standards and documentation practices in a team/enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve enterprise-endorsed data products using dimensional modeling or other patterns appropriate to business use cases.
• Translate complex business problems into reusable data models, domain structures, semantic layers, and governed data assets that enable analytics, reporting, and AI outcomes.
• Collaborate with other Data Architects and Analytics Leaders to define, align, and promote data modeling standards and patterns across the IT Data & Analytics team.
• Partner with Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, BI Developers, Product Teams, and stakeholders to ensure data products are usable, scalable, and aligned to business priorities.
• Facilitate alignment with stakeholders and product owners on shared definitions, boundaries, metric intent, and data product expectations.
• Mature the data foundation by identifying gaps in data coverage, quality, lineage, and structure, prioritizing improvements through a product-minded approach.
• Support AI-ready data architecture by designing well-governed, well-documented data layers for model training and AI insights.
• Evaluate emerging tools and patterns to improve how data products are built, governed, reused, and scaled.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL

Data governance

Communication

Data transformation

Documentation standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics

Tools

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Graph databases

AWS

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a Data Architect to design, mature, and scale enterprise-endorsed data products powering analytics and AI at the enterprise level. You will translate business problems into reusable data models and governed data assets, balancing technical rigor with business impact.

Join a team that collaborates across IT and business units to deliver scalable data foundations, domain models, and patterns that enable decision-making and AI outcomes.